RMRU was contacted 2:30 a.m. on
Monday morning to assist with a search for a missing 79-year-old woman
south of Julian in San Diego County. Search and rescue teams from several
counties and from the Border Patrol arrived to assist the
San Deigo county teams who had been searching since Sunday.

Edith Verline Baker left her camp
off KQ Ranch Road and state Route 79 before her daughter and grandchildren
awoke. When she hadn't returned by 10 a.m., her daughter called
authorities.

Baker had taken a walk each morning
of the family's weeklong camping trip. It wasn't known whether she had eaten
breakfast before leaving for her hike Sunday, and she was believed to be
without water or protective clothing. Temperatures reached the high 90s
yesterday, with lows at night dipping to about 60.

Search teams were frustrated and
dissapointed that no clues, other than a single footprint, were found in five
days of searching. Officials called off the search for Baker around 4 p.m.
Thursday. Authorities will now treat this as a missing persons case.